Request for Proposals — Checks and Balances in an Automated Society
A joint EIP × CIP Request for Proposals funding researchers, builders, technologists, and advocates working on AI’s effects on the distribution of power. Open through 2026.
Introduction Every major technological revolution has rewritten governance. AI’s challenge to democratic institutions Major innovations reshape society. They affect who holds power, which modes of governance prove feasible, and how beliefs are shaped and bargains struck. The agricultural revolution led to settled populations with taxable surplus wealth, making possible the first enduring civilizations. At the dawn of the modern era, innovations in transportation and communication enabled the rise of global empires and the centralized nation-state. Today’s democracies owe something to the…
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